A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONStart where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThose who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWhenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONRemember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON